Abstract
Background: The profile of medico-legal autopsy cases is crucial to determining the mortality rates in a specificlocation owing to new causes and also aids in addressing the demographic demands in accordance with thoserates.Materials and Methods: The present study is a retrospective study of autopsies performed at Department ofForensic Medicine & Toxicology,VCSGGIMS & R, Srikot, Srinagar, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, from 1st January2020 to 31st December 2021. During this period a total of 156 autopsy cases were conducted. Relevant informationand subjective data like age, sex, marital status & manner of death have been collected from medico legal autopsyregister.Results: Out of 156 cases analysed, maximum number of autopsies were in the age group of 21-30 years with 41cases (26.28%) andmajority of were males 119(76.2%). Accidents accounted (58.3%),suicide (24.3%) and suddendeath (17.3%) cases. Maximum number of deaths were due to road traffic accidents with 82 cases (52.5%) followedby natural death with 27 cases (17.3%).Conclusion: In our study we found that majority of cases were in 3rd and 4th decade of life, majority cases weremales as compared to females, and Hindus being majority in number formed bulk of cases.
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